Last night President
Trump gave a televised address. It was
on gearing up for Afghanistan and it’s kind of like a replay of the fall of
2001 and George W Bush was President.
That was sixteen years ago. “My
personal instinct was to pull out of Afghanistan and my rule is to follow my
instinct”. But now he’s saying that
things look different behind the desk of the Oval Office. I think what the President means is that he
got brainwashed by the pro war lobby. I
heard nothing new or original in this speech and there were no specifics. He claims he’s counting on the element of
surprise, but the truth is that he doesn’t have a plan any more than Bush or
Obama did. That’s the problem. He only says “I inherited a mess”. He’s said that about everything. The whole speech was filled with time-worn platitudes
on not backing out of a commitment. Because
our leaving will create a vacuum and the Taliban will rush in and from there
they’ll be able to launch attacks against America just like they did in
2011. It was a much more long-winded
speech than I was expecting. He did say “We
are event driven now and not time-table driven”. George Bush also said that. He says we’ll leave when we win and the enemy
is clearly defeated. There was a new
strand about pitting Pakistan against India.
These two nations hate each other.
Norman says he doesn’t believe India is likely to take up that
invitation.
1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. A 2" X 4" Stud is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
8. During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur,’ a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
14. The name ‘Wendy' was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded ‘Wendy' before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
7. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s 'Born in the USA.'
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
20. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. (???)
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, “Elementary, my dear Watson."
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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